Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?
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Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
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Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
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Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.
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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
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Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
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Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.
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Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.
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In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
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Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
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The good is always the enemy of the best.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.